Vetted Executive & Leadership Professionals

“Startup President in the liquor/spirits space with hands-on experience raising capital (from friends & family through family offices/venture) and leading a major pivot from DTC to wholesale. Built GTM plans, leveraged partnerships to secure distribution across 8 states, and launched an American Single Malt positioned as a category leader ahead of TTB ratification, including product/brand strategy and multi-market rollout.”

“Operations/PMO leader across IPG Mediabrands, Kinesso, and IPG Corporate with deep experience building executive governance systems and cross-functional operating rhythms. Led high-visibility transformations including a $36M global rebrand and created data-backed dashboards/cadences that improved efficiency (10–20%) and executive alignment, including oversight of a 175M monthly media spend analysis.”

“Operations/executive-support leader with Chief of Staff compensation expectations who routinely managed multiple cross-functional initiatives, including large customer conferences and strategic customer escalations. Created scalable digital onboarding (rewrote customer comms, built self-serve implementation materials and product onboarding videos) that eliminated workflow bottlenecks and increased customer adoption by a few hundred percent while keeping executives aligned through concise status updates.”

“Previously supported capital raising at Space Ocean Corp by securing several thousand dollars in grant funding and building investor-readiness/outreach materials. Has early exposure to VC/studio/accelerator meetings and articulates nuanced differences in their incentives and time horizons. Interested in refining skills as an early-stage CTO and is highly committed to entrepreneurship.”

“Operations leader with experience standing up and scaling a bespoke, high-growth services operating model at ADP (Comprehensive Services), including SOP standardization, BPM/workflow deployment, and analytics/automation enablement. Reports major outcomes including 99.5%+ accuracy, NPS 71, and a turnaround from losses to significant profitability growth, with a metrics- and governance-driven approach to change management and executive advising.”

“CFO for PE-owned Catalyze Holdings (distributed generation solar + battery storage for C&I) brought in to professionalize a founder-led startup into an IPO-ready organization. Implemented IPO-readiness governance plus Procore and NetSuite (on time/on budget), established KPI and stage-gate operating rhythms, and drove change management that improved process clarity and reduced G&A spend.”

“Operations-focused startup builder who creates “enterprise-ready” maturity through reliability testing systems, data collection, and customer-facing quarterly reviews. Has a process-first approach (document → automate → scale), including automating manufacturing testing and moving it to a contract manufacturer. Experienced mentoring founders/executives using GQM and improving leadership effectiveness through targeted coaching and role redesign.”

“Operations and quality leader who co-founded and scaled a patented-product business in the retail paint industry to $400k+ revenue with ~50% gross margin, while maintaining perfect delivery and quality-return records through a disciplined supplier audit system. Former global quality leader at Novelis who used collaborative self-assessment frameworks to drive ~65% reduction in customer claims and mentor non-operations teams (including sales) in practical quality tools and loss reduction.”

“Operations/finance leader with experience building the operational backbone for fast-growing firms, including setting up recordkeeping, internal controls, and brokerage-specific clearing firm decisions. Helped scale an entity from ~$30M to nearly ~$300M and later modernized consulting-firm expense operations by implementing Concur integrated with ERP, with a hands-on approach to systems selection and change management.”

“Operations and organizational effectiveness advisor who builds scalable playbooks and maturity-based operating frameworks for growing organizations, including investment portfolio companies. Has led change and regulatory adoption work in a large financial institution and coached a rapidly scaling fintech founder/exec team to improve trust, delegation, and decision-making.”

“Startup-focused technology leader who has supported two startups over ~10 years, including conducting initial M&A/technology-fit research and serving as CTO to build required platforms. Recently automated manual marketing lead processing with agentic AI and drove workflow standardization through user interviews to align teams on a common process.”

“Repeat entrepreneur with multiple exits who emphasizes rigorous pre-build market research and customer discovery to validate product-market fit. Previously built Hygiene IQ for restaurant/hospitality markets and describes an end-to-end process from prototyping and MVP testing through supply chain. Currently has a pitch deck for an AI-enabled holistic companion for healthy aging (physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing).”

“Senior startup operator who turned an open-ended AI Data Fabric platform at Mapped into a validated category with repeatable revenue—building PMF validation, GTM (pricing/packaging, first GTM hires), and a major partner ecosystem (Microsoft, Honeywell, NTT, global SIs). Drove lighthouse Fortune 100 deployments, scaled to multi-million ARR within 24 months with ~70% partner-influenced pipeline, and led two fundraising rounds with full diligence/financial modeling and an OKR-driven operating system.”

“Early hire at FullCycle who owned high-trust fund operations initiatives spanning tax (K-1) process redesign, investor communications, and executive support. Known for building scalable systems (including an executive communication framework adopted as a team best practice) and for driving complex logistics like getting a team to Davos while keeping core fund operations running.”

“Founder of Token Events and former Executive Director of Technology in digital advertising who leveraged large datasets to identify a market gap in first-party/affinity data and digital rewards. Has multiple patents, raised $2.2M, built a beta product, and secured a signed LOI/MSA while launching into the Austin, TX market.”